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The Great Road Trip of 2015 Colorado to Alberta I had been planning and romanticizing it in my head for months - my great Road Trip of 2015. I was to start by quickly heading though Jackson and Yellowstone, on to Glacier National Park in northern Montana, and eventually across the border in to Canada ...

Waterton Lakes National Park The Great Road Trip of 2015 "It's where mountains meet the prairies," Named in honor of English naturalist Charles Waterton, Waterton Lakes National Park is a small, quiet national park in the at the southern tip of the Canadian Rockies. It borders Glacier National Park in Montana to the south, together ...

Banff National Park, Alberta The Great Road Trip of 2015 "In the fall of 1883, three Canadian Pacific Railway construction workers stumbled across a cave containing hot springs on the eastern slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains. From that humble beginning was born Banff National Park, Canada's first national park and the world's third. Spanning 6,641 ...

Sunset at Moraine Lake Banff National Park, Alberta The Great Road Trip of 2015 Continuing my misfortune with weather, I sat with false hope on top of the rockpile above Moraine Lake watching small breaks in the clouds let some light through; The peaks above mostly obscured by clouds. This was the spot on my ...

The Icefields Parkway - Through to Jasper Banff & Jasper National Park, Alberta The Great Road Trip of 2015 After another socked in shoot at Moraine Lake for sunrise and a quick stop by incredibly-crowded Lake Louise, I was on my way up the iconic Icefields Parkway. Named for features visible from the road such ...

The Icefields Parkway - Edith Cavell & Athabasca Valley Banff & Jasper National Parks, Alberta The Great Road Trip of 2015 It was still dark out, but I could already tell that the weather hadn't turned as I drove back down the Icefields Parkway. I didn't even take out my camera as my disappointment set ...

The Icefields Parkway - The Columbia Icefield Banff & Jasper National Park, Alberta The Great Road Trip of 2015 The evening before, I spent my time running around near the Columbia Icefield, the largest Icefield in the Rockies, as the weather once again gave me false hope of clearing for sunset. When it didn't I ...

Re-energized in Lake Louise Banff National Park, Alberta The Great Road Trip of 2015 When I get down travelling, usually a decent hotel does the trick for me and even through a hot shower and warm bed left me feeling re-energized, I was still feeling defeated as I stood on the shore of Lake Louise ...

Yoho National Park, British Columbia The Great Road Trip of 2015 "Of course it's f*cking clouding up," I murmured to myself as I drove north towards Yoho National Park on the Trans Canada Highway. "Yoho" is a Cree expression of awe and wonder and together with Jasper, Kootenay and Banff National Parks, along with three ...